After courtroom fireworks Tuesday morning from a video depicting drug use, gunplay and beer drinking by inmates inside the Orleans Parish jail complex, and one video showing an inmate hanging out on Bourbon Street, testimony in the week-long hearing over a proposed jail reform package turned to a corrections expert who called inmate violence in the jail the worst he's seen, according to reporting by John Simerman of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

News outlets around the country were quick to seize on the story. Here's a sampling of what others are saying.

Shocking video shows guns, drugs, gambling behind bars at now-closed New Orleans prison Shuttered last year, the Orleans Parish House of Detention building was apparently rife with drugs, firearms and other types of contraband. A federal hearing is looking for answers: New York Daily News